“The Hopi Indians, who live in the arid highlands of northern Arizona, have inhabited the same place for a millennium, far longer than any other people in North America. They are not only one of the oldest dwellers in this land but are considered by most other Indians to have a wisdom, a knowledge of things, beyond average comprehension. Peace-loving and knit tightly together by clan relationships, they are intensely spiritual and fiercely independent. Their all-pervading religion is a many-stranded cord that unites them to their stark and beautiful environment.”

The Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Brigadier General Abdul Hussein Hedjazi, military aide, and Park Superintendent H.C. Bryant, watch a Hopi Indian dance presented at the Hopi House ~ 1949.

Prime minister U Nu of Burma viewing the Hopi Indian dances at the Hopi House, Grand Canyon National Park ~ July 11, 1955.

Burma's Prime Minister, U Nu, and part of his official party as they stood with some of the Hopi Indians on the dance platform following a special dance on July 11, 1955. Mrs. U Nu stands left center in back of the drum. Hopi Clan Chief Porter Timeche far left.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, poses with Hopi Indian dancers following special Hopi dance on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park ~ Circa 1957.

Two-year old Ronald Timeche performs the Eagle Dance at the Hopi House on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park ~ Circa 1950.

Hopi Indian dancers performing at the Hopi House at Grand Canyon National Park ~ Circa 1927.

“The Hualapai, meaning 'People of The Tall Pines,' are native people of the Southwest.

Their homeland stretched from the Grand Canyon southward to the Santa Maria River and from the Black Mountains eastward to the pine forests of the San Francisco peaks. Today, the Hualapai American Indian Reservation, created in 1883, is nearly 1,000,000 acres that includes 108 miles of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon.”

“A Pueblo tribe residing at Zuñi on the bank of the Rio Zuñi near the boundary of New Mexico, and in the adjoining villages of Nutria, Ojo Caliente, and Pescado. The name Zuñi is a Spanish corruption of the Keresan Sunifisti, and was first used by Antonio de Espajo in 1583; the natives, however, called themselves Ashiwi (from Shiwi, flesh) and their territory Shiwona.” (Quoted from: New Advent)